Kandas Cloete
Biographic Data
| ID | 1399439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kandas Cloete |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kandas |
| FAMILY NAME | Cloete |
| SIGNATURE | CLOETE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8911-6242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
South Africa’s land redistribution
South Africa’s land redistribution aims to redress the historical injustices of apartheid. This paper evaluates the efficacy of an agent-based model to support and refine the process. Using the Impacts of Land Use Patterns in South Africa model, developed from surveys of 658 commercial farmers and 833 commercially oriented smallholders, we simulate three scenarios: the current willing seller, willing buyer mechanism as our baseline, a second scen…
Case in point
This paper makes an empirical and methodological contribution to estimating the impact of failed support services, such as electricity, on agricultural value chains. Our research offers estimates of the effects of loadshedding (scheduled power outages) on three distinct agricultural value chains, along with strategies used to manage these disruptions. To compare the effects of loadshedding with a baseline of uninterrupted electricity supply, we u…
The competitiveness of South African table grape exports in the European markets
International trade in table grapes is expanding rapidly, with Peru overtaking South Africa as the second-largest exporter from the Southern Hemisphere behind Chile. The primary objective of the study was to the determine whether South Africa, with 75% of its exports destined for Europe, will be negatively affected by changes in Peru and Chile's export orientation. This question is addressed by breaking it down into four key factors. The first is…
Is persistent “loadshedding” pulling the plug on agriculture in the Western Cape, South Africa
Besides a few industry reports on the impact of loadshedding on agriculture, there is a dearth of literature on the electricity dependence and the impact of loadshedding on the South African agricultural sector. We aim to make two main contributions. First, we analyse the electricity dependence of the agricultural sector and assess how loadshedding impacts the sector's various economic activities. Second, we employ Interactive Qualitative Analysi…
Modelling the exiting of South African producers from commercial agricultural production – an agent-based model
This paper explores the prospects of commercial producers who would be willing to exit voluntarily in the near future to make land available in the market. In addition, it also considers what factors are restricting the acceleration of this rate of exit from a land-supply perspective with respect to barriers to exit. The prospect of structural change from such acceleration is also explored using three scenarios. An agent-based mathematical model …
Determinants of commercial farmers' willingness to mentor emerging farmers in South African land reform
To address the challenge posed by a lack of commercial farming skills among beneficiaries of redistributed farms, the South African Government has introduced a mentorship program, by which established commercial farmers share expertise with newly settled farmers. However, commercial farmers’ willingness to mentor emerging farmers, and the determinants of their willingness at a national level, are not explicitly known. This article attempts to con…
Confident or captured? Commercial producers in South Africa
Purpose Among the many things that land reform in South Africa suffers from is the lack of scientific attention paid to the willingness of commercial producers to exit or contract. This research aims to contribute to literature on this phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach The interplay between the business confidence and the opportunity costs of a farming enterprise represented in a survey sample of 450 commercial farm owners is investigated, …
Covid-19 and the South African wine industry
South Africa has faced multiple waves of COVID-19 infections since March 2020 with various levels of economic restrictions imposed to control the pandemic’s spread. Such actions included intermittent bans on alcoholic beverage sales, which have had a substantial impact on the wine sector. This purpose of this paper is to quantify this impact, using a partial equilibrium simulation model to separate the direct impact of sales restrictions from the…
Determinants of commercial farmers' willingness to mentor emerging farmers in South African land reform
To address the challenge posed by a lack of commercial farming skills among beneficiaries of redistributed farms, the South African Government has introduced a mentorship program, by which established commercial farmers share expertise with newly settled farmers. However, commercial farmers’ willingness to mentor emerging farmers, and the determinants of their willingness at a national level, are not explicitly known. This article attempts to con…
Confident or captured? Commercial producers in South Africa
Purpose Among the many things that land reform in South Africa suffers from is the lack of scientific attention paid to the willingness of commercial producers to exit or contract. This research aims to contribute to literature on this phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach The interplay between the business confidence and the opportunity costs of a farming enterprise represented in a survey sample of 450 commercial farm owners is investigated, …
Covid-19 and the South African wine industry
South Africa has faced multiple waves of COVID-19 infections since March 2020 with various levels of economic restrictions imposed to control the pandemic’s spread. Such actions included intermittent bans on alcoholic beverage sales, which have had a substantial impact on the wine sector. This purpose of this paper is to quantify this impact, using a partial equilibrium simulation model to separate the direct impact of sales restrictions from the…
Is persistent “loadshedding” pulling the plug on agriculture in the Western Cape, South Africa
Besides a few industry reports on the impact of loadshedding on agriculture, there is a dearth of literature on the electricity dependence and the impact of loadshedding on the South African agricultural sector. We aim to make two main contributions. First, we analyse the electricity dependence of the agricultural sector and assess how loadshedding impacts the sector's various economic activities. Second, we employ Interactive Qualitative Analysi…
Modelling the exiting of South African producers from commercial agricultural production – an agent-based model
This paper explores the prospects of commercial producers who would be willing to exit voluntarily in the near future to make land available in the market. In addition, it also considers what factors are restricting the acceleration of this rate of exit from a land-supply perspective with respect to barriers to exit. The prospect of structural change from such acceleration is also explored using three scenarios. An agent-based mathematical model …
Determinants of commercial farmers' willingness to mentor emerging farmers in South African land reform
To address the challenge posed by a lack of commercial farming skills among beneficiaries of redistributed farms, the South African Government has introduced a mentorship program, by which established commercial farmers share expertise with newly settled farmers. However, commercial farmers’ willingness to mentor emerging farmers, and the determinants of their willingness at a national level, are not explicitly known. This article attempts to con…
The competitiveness of South African table grape exports in the European markets
International trade in table grapes is expanding rapidly, with Peru overtaking South Africa as the second-largest exporter from the Southern Hemisphere behind Chile. The primary objective of the study was to the determine whether South Africa, with 75% of its exports destined for Europe, will be negatively affected by changes in Peru and Chile's export orientation. This question is addressed by breaking it down into four key factors. The first is…
South Africa’s land redistribution
South Africa’s land redistribution aims to redress the historical injustices of apartheid. This paper evaluates the efficacy of an agent-based model to support and refine the process. Using the Impacts of Land Use Patterns in South Africa model, developed from surveys of 658 commercial farmers and 833 commercially oriented smallholders, we simulate three scenarios: the current willing seller, willing buyer mechanism as our baseline, a second scen…
Case in point
This paper makes an empirical and methodological contribution to estimating the impact of failed support services, such as electricity, on agricultural value chains. Our research offers estimates of the effects of loadshedding (scheduled power outages) on three distinct agricultural value chains, along with strategies used to manage these disruptions. To compare the effects of loadshedding with a baseline of uninterrupted electricity supply, we u…
Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (3 works) · Marketing (3 works) · Natural resource economics (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works)